Ghost Town Trails

State atlas · filed under NY

Ghost Towns of New York

New York's lost places include Adirondack mining and tannery towns, canal communities the railroads orphaned, and a dozen valley villages drowned for New York City's reservoirs.

1,104 sites surveyed across New York — 4 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.

Charted — click for the recordSurveyed — records pending

Survey note

The federal place-name archive records 1,104 vanished or historical sites in New York — ghost towns, mining camps, townsites, and railroad stops. We chart them a few at a time, as the records can be verified. Every mark on this map is a place that once had a name.

The full survey ledger

Every vanished town the federal archive records in New York — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.

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